All Videos for Stroke

The Efficacy and Safety of Creatine for High Homocysteine

Those on a healthy plant-based diet with elevated homocysteine levels despite taking sufficient vitamin B12 may want to consider taking a gram a day of contaminant-free creatine.



Should Vegetarians Take Creatine to Normalize Homocysteine?

What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?



How to Test for Functional Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine?

Not taking B12 supplements or regularly eating B12 fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Animal Protein?

Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Saturated Fat?

How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vegan Junk Food?

Just because you’re eating vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Omega 3s?

Does eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk?



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin D?

Could the apparent increased stroke risk in vegetarians be reverse causation? And what about vegetarians versus vegans?



Do Vegetarians Really Have Higher Stroke Risk?

The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.



What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention

What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?



What to Eat for Stroke Prevention

More than 90% of stroke risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors.



Modifiable Risk Factors and Comorbidities for Severe COVID-19 Infection

There are things you can do right now to reduce your risk of falling seriously ill and dying from this disease.



How to Lower Lp(a) with Diet

What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).



Treating High Lp(a): A Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis

What is this lipoprotein(a) and what can we do about it?



What Are the Best Beverages?

A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.



What the New Blood Pressure Range Guidelines Mean

Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.



The Metabolic Harms of Night Shifts and Irregular Meals

What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.



Chronobiology – How Circadian Rhythms Can Control Your Health and Weight

Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference.



Are Weight-Loss Supplements Effective?

Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss?



Are Weight-Loss Supplements Safe?

Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have products that were even accurately labeled.



Does a Ketogenic Diet Help Diabetes or Make It Worse?

Keto diets put to the test for diabetes reversal.



Are Keto Diets Safe?

The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.



Are Weight-Loss Pills Safe?

Why don’t more people take the weight loss medications currently on the market?



Plant-Based Diets Recognized by Diabetes Associations

Plant-based diets as the single most important, yet underutilized, opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and death.



Is Fiber an Effective Anti-Inflammatory?

Most Americans get less than half the recommended minimum fiber intake a day and the benefits of fiber go way beyond bowel regularity.



Is Cheese Healthy? Compared to What?

Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk.



Are There Benefits of Energy Drinks?

The effects of Red Bull and Monster brand energy drinks on artery function and athletic performance.



Does an Apple a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?

Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs?



Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems?

Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?



Soy Phytoestrogens for Menopause Hot Flashes

Does soy food consumption explain why Japanese women appear to be so protected from hot flash symptoms?



Dr. Greger in the Kitchen: My New Favorite Dessert

Dr. Greger whips up some matcha ice cream inspired by a recipe in his How Not to Die Cookbook.



Is it Worth Getting Annual Health Check-Ups?

What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor?



Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong

A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.



How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels

Should we be concerned about high-choline plant foods, such as broccoli, producing the same toxic TMAO that results from eating high-choline animal foods, such as eggs?



What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs?

Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?



Do the Pros of Brown Rice Outweigh the Cons of Arsenic?

Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?



Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice & Seaweed

A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine?



The Effects of Too Much Arsenic in the Diet

Even at low-level exposure, arsenic is not just a class I carcinogen, but may also impair our immune function and increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.



How to Treat Heart Failure & Kidney Failure with Diet

One way a diet rich in animal-sourced foods like meat, eggs, and cheese may contribute to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death is through the production of toxin called TMAO.